U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Colorado (Jan. 30)

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Oracle America Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,365,302) developed by David M. Johnson, Raleigh, N.C., Jamey Wood, Louisville, Colo., and Vijay Ramachandran, Cupertino, Calif., for "apparatus, systems and methods for authenticating widget access and widgets."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In some embodiments, a content server receives a request for a widget from a web server, specifying a user identifier and a delegation server. If the delegation server is trusted, the user's identity is ascertained using the user identifier. The widget is delivered having a context of the user's identity. The content server receives a request to access content generated utilizing the widget incorporated into a web page and allows access based on the context of the widget. In other embodiments, a social network server receives a request from a web server for a widget. The widget is delivered having a source indicator. Subsequently, the social network server receives a request to access the social graph generated utilizing the widget incorporated into a web page. If the request includes a change to the social graph, the social network server allows the request if the widget is trusted."
The patent application was filed on March 19, 2009 (12/407,577). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,365,302&OS=8,365,302&RS=8,365,302
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system includes an interconnect, processing cells connected to the interconnect, the processing cells containing corresponding cache memories and corresponding virtual machines, and a storage cell connected to the interconnect. The storage cell stores data portions that correspond to different ones of the processing cells, and the data portions are owned by individual ones of the processing cells to enable data communication over the interconnect without cache coherency support. A first and second of the processing cells are configured to migrate a virtual machine from the first processing cell to the second processing cell, where the migrated virtual machine in the second processing cell is configured to retrieve virtual machine data from a corresponding one of the data portions in the storage cell."
The patent application was filed on Sept. 23, 2008 (12/236,244). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,365,169&OS=8,365,169&RS=8,365,169
Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A system method for providing software integration for telecommunications offerings online procurement, including a first layer configured to receive at least one of a request and a user action from a web server; and a second layer coupled to the first layer and configured to perform at least one of order management, online ordering and user management functions. At least one of the first layer and the second layer includes software objects extended to support procurement of the telecommunications offerings on-line and custom software objects created to support procuring of the telecommunications offerings on-line."
The patent application was filed on Jan. 22, 2002 (10/051,180). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,64,798.PN.&OS=PN/83,64,798&RS=PN/83,64,798
Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

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Qwest Communications International Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- Qwest Communications International, Denver, has been assigned a patent (8,364,801) developed by Richard S. Cerami, Denver, Timothy Figueroa, Aurora, Colo., and Roxanna Storaasli, Denver, for a "management of virtual and physical network inventories."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method for managing a network element inventory for a video and data network is provided. The method includes self-discovering a physical network inventory of the video and data network. Additionally, a logical network inventory of the video and data network is self-discovered. Further, a planned network inventory of the video and data network is provided. Once the planned, logical, and physical network inventories are collected, the physical network inventory, logical network inventory, and planned network inventory are loaded into the network element inventory. After loading, synchronization of the physical network inventory, logical network inventory, and planned network inventory in the network element inventory is performed. A view is then provided using the synchronized physical network inventory, logical network inventory, and planned network inventory when a request for the view of the network element inventory is received."
The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2008 (12/335,101). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,64,801.PN.&OS=PN/83,64,801&RS=PN/83,64,801
Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Administering incident pools including creating a pool of incidents, the pool having a predetermined initial period of time; assigning each received incident to the pool; assigning, by the incident analyzer, to each incident a predetermined minimum time for inclusion in a pool; extending for one or more of the incidents the predetermined initial period of time of the pool by a particular period of time assigned to the incident; determining whether conditions have been met to close the pool; and if conditions have been met to close the pool determining for each incident in the pool whether the incident has been in the pool for its predetermined minimum time for inclusion in a pool; and if the incident has not been in the pool for its predetermined minimum time, evicting the incident from the closed pool and including the incident in a next pool."
The patent application was filed on Nov. 2, 2010 (12/938,067). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,64,813.PN.&OS=PN/83,64,813&RS=PN/83,64,813
Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Various embodiments related to a host computing device for rendering and sending image data to a peripheral device for display at the peripheral device. For example, one embodiment comprises a host computing device, the host computing device comprising a data storage subsystem and a logic subsystem. The host computing device further comprises instructions stored in the data storage subsystem and executable by the logic subsystem to output to the peripheral device a frame of image data representing a difference between a currently rendered image and an (N-1)-th previously rendered image, N being an integer and having a value of 3 or more."
The patent application was filed on Sept. 28, 2010 (12/892,666). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,64,865.PN.&OS=PN/83,64,865&RS=PN/83,64,865
Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

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Greenfly America Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- Greenfly America, Scottsbluff, Neb., has been assigned a patent (8,364,770) developed by David J. Ladouceur, Westminster, Colo., and Michael J. Tracy, Scottsbluff, Neb., for a "heterogeneous network delivery of electronic messages in accordance with privacy and personalization criteria."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of network delivery of electronic messages includes creating an action list from templates corresponding to a group identifier. The templates characterize the structure of a group specified by the group identifier. The structure of the group is specified through roles, permissions and transaction rules for communicating with each individual associated with the group identifier. A message recipient specifies communication preferences for receiving information. Electronic message delivery instructions of the action list are executed for each individual associated with the group identifier. The electronic message delivery instructions specify instructions to be processed by disparate communication networks. The disparate communication networks include at least two of a text messaging network, an instant messaging network, an email network, a cellular network, a social network and the public switched telephone network."
The patent application was filed on June 8, 2010 (12/796,606). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,64,770.PN.&OS=PN/83,64,770&RS=PN/83,64,770
Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

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QUALCOMM Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,364,857) developed by six co-inventors for a "wireless modem with CPU and auxiliary processor that shifts control between processors when in low power state while maintaining communication link to wireless network." The co-inventors are James Pyers, San Diego, George Wiley, San Diego, James J. Willkie, Poway, Calif., Brian Steele, Denver, Apul Nahata, San Diego, and Karthik Raj Kaliannan, San Diego.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A computing device includes a low power auxiliary processor, such as a processor on a wireless card or sub-system, which is able to takeover processing in place of the computing device's central processing unit (CPU). Operating the computing device on the auxiliary processor draws less power from the computing device battery, enabling extended operation in an auxiliary processor mode. When in this mode, the auxiliary processor controls peripherals and provides the system functionality while the CPU is deactivated, such as in "off," "standby" or "sleep" modes. In the auxiliary processor mode, the computing device can accomplish useful tasks, such as sending/receiving electronic mail, displaying electronic documents and accessing a network while drawing minimal power from the battery. Transitions between the normal operating mode and auxiliary processor mode may be transparent to users. Such a computer may display instant on, always on and always connected operating features."
The patent application was filed on Aug. 31, 2009 (12/551,530). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,64,857.PN.&OS=PN/83,64,857&RS=PN/83,64,857
Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

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QUALCOMM Assigned Patent for Utility Service in Multi-processor Environment
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- QUALCOMM, San Diego, has been assigned a patent (8,364,850) developed by Uppinder Singh Babbar, San Diego, and Satish Vangala, Boulder, Colo., for a "utility service in multi-processor environment."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods and systems for telecommunication devices to share a network connection between a utility engine and an application. While the outgoing data of the utility engine and the application are merged over the shared network connection, incoming data is filtered via an IP data filter to route utility engine specific data to the utility engine while allowing all other data to pass through for use by the application. Numerous utilities may be supported by different forms of utility engines. Among such utilities include GPS service, where GPS related data may be received from a GPS server and utilized by applications which provide location specific information based on a location determined by the GPS server."
The patent application was filed on July 19, 2007 (11/780,467). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=83,64,850.PN.&OS=PN/83,64,850&RS=PN/83,64,850
Written by Amal Ahmed; edited by Jaya Anand.

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Konica Minolta Laboratory USA Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- Konica Minolta Laboratory USA, San Mateo, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,365,066) developed by Chris Williamson, Boulder, Colo., for "systems and methods for processing markup language specified spreadsheet styles."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Methods to facilitate the processing of formatting information for cells in a spreadsheet document described in a markup language are presented. For spreadsheet documents that include a plurality of style objects, cell formatting information may be obtained from a master style object that stores master formatting information. In addition, named style information may be obtained from a style name object that stores named styles. Further, cell specific formatting information, which can override master formatting information, may be obtained from a cell-specific style object that includes cell specific formatting information. Combined cell formatting information for cells may be stored in a cell format object, wherein the combined cell formatting information can comprise named styles, cell-specific formatting information that overrides formatting information in the master style object, and master formatting information that has not been overridden by the cell-specific formatting information."
The patent application was filed on Feb. 9, 2010 (12/703,179). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,365,066.PN.&OS=PN/8,365,066&RS=PN/8,365,066
Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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Oracle America Assigned Patent for Data Storage System Manager and Method for Managing a Data Storage System
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- Oracle America, Redwood City, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,364,923) developed by John Timothy O'Brien, Louisville, Colo., Michael Steven Milillo, Louisville, Colo., and Carl Thomas Madison Jr., Windsor, Colo., for a "data storage system manager and method for managing a data storage system."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A data storage system manager includes one or more servers, at least one data collector deployed on at least one of the servers, at least one policy engine deployed on at least one of the servers, and at least one configuration manager deployed on at least one the servers. The at least one data collector is configured to collect resource utilization information including data storage wear rate of data storage system data storage modules. The at least one policy engine is configured to evaluate the collected information and to initiate changes to a configuration of the data storage system based on data storage wear rate and work load distribution policies. The at least one configuration manager is configured to implement the changes initiated by the at least one policy engine to control the data storage wear rate and a skew of the work load distribution within the data storage system."
The patent application was filed on March 30, 2009 (12/414,121). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,364,923.PN.&OS=PN/8,364,923&RS=PN/8,364,923
Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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Seagate Technology Assigned Patent
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 30 -- Seagate Technology, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,364,929) developed by Jonathan W. Haines, Boulder, Colo., and Wayne H. Vinson, Longmont, Colo., and Timothy R. Feldman, Louisville, Colo., for "enabling spanning for a storage device."
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A storage device, e.g., an SSD, is configured to enable spanning for a logical block between pages of the device. In one example, a device includes a data storage module to receive data to be stored, wherein the data comprises a plurality of logical blocks, and wherein a size of the plurality of logical blocks exceeds a size of a first page of the device, and a spanning determination module to determine whether to partition one of the plurality of logical blocks into a first partition and a second partition, wherein the data storage module is configured to partition the one of the plurality of logical blocks into the first partition and the second partition and to store the first partition in the first page and the second partition in a second, different page when the spanning determination module determines to partition the one of the plurality of logical blocks."
The patent application was filed on Oct. 23, 2009 (12/604,842). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,364,929.PN.&OS=PN/8,364,929&RS=PN/8,364,929
Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar.